Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks will premiere their new musical revue Kollege of Musical Knowledge Thursday February 16th at the Belly Up in Solana Beach and Friday February 17th at McCabe's in Santa Monica.

This show is the latest in a series of Dan Hicks-created musical productions that have paid homage to the Singing Cowboys, saluted the Folk Years and honored Swing Noir. Dan now pays tribute to the composers and artists he most admires, including Duke Ellington, Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Richard Rodgers, Paul Simon and, of course, himself!

“Professor” Hicks and the Hot Licks will illuminate eager pupils to some music history as well as a variety of musical styles and also present a repertoire of their much loved signature tunes.

Dan Hicks unique songwriting and blend of styles, masterful folk-swing guitar playing, and unmistakable sense of humor have made him a cultural icon, landing Hicks twice on the cover of Rolling Stone and provoking Tom Waits to say, “Dan Hicks is fly, sly, wily and dry” while Elvis Costello proclaimed him “an American treasure.”

The LA Weekly said, “Dan Hicks has plowed deep furrows through some of the most fertile pop music territory known to man, and during it all has maintained both his own distinct, light yet emphatic touch and a pace that's always kept him more than a few steps ahead of his colleagues.”